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Intro to threads and processes

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Intro to threads and processes

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- I have to come clean. Earlier in the course, well, I lied to you. You know that explanation I did about how computers operate on memory? Well it's a little more complicated than that. I know you're shocked. Shocked that an introductory explanation of computational operations might have glossed over some of the details. But I swear I'll make it up to you, don't leave. I'll tell you everything. How computers really work. You see, computers have both memory and file storage. It's like short-term and long-term memory. When we save a file and load to file from the disc, that's in storage, long-term memory. When we declare a variable in our program, that's short-term memory in the processor. It looks a bit like this. So what's the big deal? Why can't we think of both storage and memory as one big blob of accessible data? Well, let's bring in a second program. The first program saves a file to the disk. The second…

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